Dr. Carlos Solís, associate vice president for the Technology Innovation Office, presented at the Microsoft Higher Education Customer Advisory Board meeting in October 2019. The topic of his presentation was “Media Captioning by AI – Services: A comparative review of cost and accuracy.”
Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn, director of collections and digital services in University Libraries, was invited to present his topic on “Developing a Digital Scholarship Research Ecosystem.” The presentation provided an overview of elements necessary to develop a Digital Scholarship Research Ecosystem for a university, college or research institution. He also chaired and moderated sessions during the International Conference on Educational Information Technology in February 2020.
Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn, director of collections and digital services in University Libraries, was invited to present his paper “Developing a Digital Scholarship Research Ecosystem” as part of the Speech Award of Excellence at the International Academic Technology Impact Awards in February 2020.
Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn, director of collections and digital services in University Libraries, presented at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall Membership Meeting in December 2019. The topic for the meeting was “Open Source Digital Scholarly Research Systems: Local and Global Possibilities.” He provided an overview and project briefing of Texas State University’s Digital Scholarly Research Ecosystem. He also discussed D-Space, Dataverse, ORCID, OMEKA, Vireo, OJS3 and digital ecosystems for scholarly research and raising research profiles of faculty, graduate students and institutions.
Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn, director of collections and digital services in University Libraries, presented at the International Conference on Educational Information Technology in December 2019. He presented research on the “Digital Scholarhip Research Ecosystems Research Paper presentation of Texas State University Digital Scholarly Ecosystem.” During his presentation, he gave an overview of new technology and open source possibilities within international educational technologies context for raising research profiles and collaboration possibiltes for faculty, graduate students and institutions.
Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn, director of collections and digital services in University Libraries, presented during the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries webinar in April 2020. The topic explored how to develop a digital scholarship research system for academic libraries. He used Texas State University Libraries’ digital systems as an example and provided an overview for developing new digital scholarly research systems from research library perspectives.
Evan Pickrel, electronic information resources accessibility coordinator, attended the Information and Communications Technology conference, September-October 2019. At the event he learned more about the methodology of accessibility testing.
Evan Pickrel, electronic information resources accessibility coordinator, attended Accessing Higher Ground 2019. The two-day, intensive, training covered all aspects of PDF creation and accessibility.
Evan Pickrel, electronic information resources accessibility coordinator, attended and presented at the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers conference. The presentation topic covered how to run an accessibility program with limited resources.
Jessica McClean, research, instruction and outreach librarian, presented at the STEM Librarians South Conference in July 2020. Her presentation, “Gathering Low-Hanging Fruit: Getting Faculty Buy-In for Adding Papers to an Institutional Repository,” was a lightning talk on a scholarly communication-related project to add more content to the institutional repository while also building relationships with faculty.
Katie Salzmann, lead archivist for The Wittliff Collections, presented “Archiving Texas Music: Preserving Culture Across the State and Beyond” at the Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting in February 2020. Her presentation gave an overview of the Texas Music Collection at the Wittliff, its evolution from the literary tradition of the Southwest, and the expanded focus that developed out of the Southwestern Writers Collection.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended the first collegiate Overwatch esports tournament. The event was hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington in September 2019. The “Battle4Texas” event included representatives of 16 universities all vying for the title “Champion of Texas.”
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago in October 2019. The conference calls together the best thinking in higher education IT to become even better at what they do. Professionals and technology providers from around the world gather at the conference to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Orlando in October 2019. The flagship conference explored how to shape technology to respond to adversity and discover digital business strategic planning tools and techniques to achieve business continuity.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended the Gartner Analyst Onsite Briefing/Discussion: “Artificial Intelligence, Data Visualization and Immersive Technologies” in San Antonio in January 2020. Briefings are research tools for industry analysts, and an opportunity for IT vendors to present products, services and business strategies.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended the Adobe Creative Campus in Orlando in Febraury 2020. The Adobe Creative Campus program spotlights leading colleges and universities that recognize the value of teaching digital literacy skills in higher education.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in Phoenix in February 2020. The Forum was by-invitation-only and addressed the strategic needs of enterprise and business unit CIOs.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended several sessions at Dell Technologies’ Virtual Esports Conference during June and July 2020.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, virtually attended the Gartner Texas CIO Forum in July 2020.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended the virtual Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications (TASSCC) Annual Conference. The event is to provide a setting where discussion can occur about critical issues that impact Texas public sector IT professionals.
Kenneth R. Pierce, vice president for information technology and CIO, attended and served as a panelist at the Executive Leadership for Information Technology Excellence (ELITE) program hosted by the University of Texas Governor’s Center for Management Development in August 2020. The executive program serves to develop the executive competencies needed for leadership roles in technology information offices.
Lauren Goodley, archivist for The Wittliff Collections, presented “Archivematica Campfire Stories” during the Texas Digital Library and A-Tex Webinar in November 2019. She shared the work of the Digital Preservation Working Group and her own work implementing Archivematica as part of the Texas State University Libraries’ digital preservation program.
Mary Aycock, database and metadata management librarian, and Laura Waugh, digital collections librarian, co-presented at the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference in March 2020. Their presentation, entitled “Square [metadata] pegs and round [repository] holes: Making metadata work,” shared challenges, successes, and lessons learned developing a library-wide metadata best practice.
Matt Taylor, software licensing coordinator in IT Business Operations, attended the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2019, Oct. 14 – Oct. 17 in Chicago. The conference calls together the best thinking in higher education IT to become even better at what they do. Professionals and technology providers from around the world gather at the conference to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges.
Ryan Lara, technology architect in Technology Resources, led a focus group at the Microsoft Ignite – Technology Conference in November 2019. The focus group topic concentrated on Improving the Microsoft 365 Admin Center for Microsoft engineers and other public sector leads.
Scott Ayers, director of IT Marketing and Communications, attended the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2019, Oct. 14 – Oct. 17 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference calls together the best thinking in higher education IT to become even better at what they do. Professionals and technology providers from around the world gather at the conference to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges.
Stephanie Larrison, electronic resources librarian, presented at the U.S. Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Association 2019 Annual Conference. Her presentation, “Training Workshop: Vireo 4 ETD Submission System,” was aimed at current users of the Vireo Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Submission System. She demonstrated and provided hands-on training of the new features of Vireo release 4, including creating customized workflows, using new field profiles, and the creation and use of controlled vocabularies.
Stephanie Larrison, electronic resources librarian, presented at the U.S. Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Association Annual Conference in October 2019. Her presentation, “Introduction to Vireo” gave a quick introduction to Vireo Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Submission System with a brief live demonstration of how a student would submit their manuscript, emails they would receive from Vireo, and how staff would interact with the manuscript.
Stephanie Larrison, electronic resources librarian, presented at the U.S. Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Association in September 2020. Her presentation, “ETDs for Beginners,” introduced a very large group of new ETD professionals to the associations and consortiums in Texas with an interest in theses and dissertations. During her presentation she gave an overview of the Texas Digital Library and activities of the Texas Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association.
Stephanie Towery, copyright officer; Amanda Price, monograph acquisitions librarian; and Laura Waugh, digital collections librarian, presented a hybrid approach to scholarly communication education at the Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference, March 2020.
Tricia Boucher, user experience librarian, presented a “Secret Shopper (service) Assessment” at the University of Michigan Special Interest Group event in April 2020. The discussion detailed how the Texas State University Libraries has utilized the service for many years and included a segment on “lessons learned from our experience.”
Tricia Boucher, user experience librarian, presented at the Texas Council of Academic Libraries Conference, September 2019. In her presentation, “User Experience and Assessment,” she discussed the importance of assessing the user experience for continuous improvement of library spaces, services, and resources.
Whitten Smart, special assistant to the vice president for information technology, attended the Executive Leadership for Information Technology Excellence (ELITE) program hosted by the University of Texas Governor’s Center for Management Development in August 2020. The executive program serves to develop the executive competencies needed for leadership roles in technology information offices.
Whitten Smart, special assistant to the vice president for information technology, attended, served as panelist, and presented at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago, October 2019. The topic of the panel he served on was “Educational Intelligence: From Limitless Data to Powerful Insights.” His presentation shared about Texas State’s learning management system selection process.
